The literary digest . ^>-. The story of two men who fought in the Civil War FROM a certain little town in Mas-sachusetts two men went to theCivil War. Each of them had en-joyed the same educational advantages,and so far as anyone could judge, theirprospects for success were equally good. One man accumulated a fortune. Theother spent his last years almost entirelydependent upon his children for support. He had hard luck, the town ex-plained. He never seemed to catchhold after the war. But the other man did not lose hisgrip. He seemed to experience nodifficult} in catching hold after theAvar.
The literary digest . ^>-. The story of two men who fought in the Civil War FROM a certain little town in Mas-sachusetts two men went to theCivil War. Each of them had en-joyed the same educational advantages,and so far as anyone could judge, theirprospects for success were equally good. One man accumulated a fortune. Theother spent his last years almost entirelydependent upon his children for support. He had hard luck, the town ex-plained. He never seemed to catchhold after the war. But the other man did not lose hisgrip. He seemed to experience nodifficult} in catching hold after theAvar. The difierencc in the two men wasnot a difference of capacity, but a differ-ence in decision. One man saw theafter-the-war tide of expansion, trainedhimself for executive opportunity, andso swam with the tide. The other manmerely drifted. The history of thesetwo men will be repeated in hundreds ofthousands of lives in the next fewmontlis. After every war come the great successes—and great failures IS your future worth iial
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